People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Seventeen thousand Chinese, supported by twenty guns, attacked the .Japanese position at Hal Cheng,' but were repulsed. Tolstoi, the Russian novelist and reformer, is said to have written the manifesto censuring the czar for his assertion of absolutism. Natives attacked the British expedition on the Brass River, Africa, and were defeated and several of their towns burned. Five hundred men have been imprisoned in a mine at Normaniown, England, through an accident to the cages. Emperor Menelek killed 7,000 Gallas and captured 14,000 slaves in a battle at Vallamo. He lost 7,000 men. Alexander Bed ward, who claims to be a propiiet, has been arrested in Jamaica, charged with inciting his followers to rebellion. Twenty-uve of the leaders of the recent black fiags riots in Formosa have been beheaded by order of the emperor. Rebels entered and looted the City of Morocco, many persons being killed and hundreds wounded in the fighting. A Japanese force Is being mobilized at Hiroshima for the purpose.it is believed, of descending on Formosa. Insurgent Bedouins captured the greater part of the City of Muscat. Six hundred trench troops were sur prised by ret els in Af’-ica. Three hun died wore killed an < the survivors surrounded. ' Dispatches from Odessa state that . thousands of lives were lost in the 1 earthquake which destroyed the town of £v<*aa. - --